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  • If you can’t configure Docker, reverse proxies, and Yaml files, you shouldn’t be self-hosting

    Yes, absolutely.

    Configure Docker

    if you cannot run docker compose up or understand the basics of what it’s doing, you should not be self hosting. Yes, Docker can be difficult to troubleshoot but you need to understand where your data is being stored and generally self hosting projects using Docker are easy to set up.

    reverse proxies

    Implying exposing your server to the Internet. Yes. 100%. If you do not know what you’re doing, you should not. This is dangerous to your machine and to your data.

    Yaml files

    This is a plain text file. You can open it with Notepad or your operating system’s equivalent. Editing a text file to enter some default parameters is a low bar and if you can’t edit a text file, you’re going to get caught up in some other part of self hosting






  • Immich is a fantastic photo backup service that is a replacement for Google Photos both in form and function.

    There’s a demo at demo.immich.app to see what it looks like and what you can do with it. As far as self hosting stuff goes it’s relatively easy to setup. Work through the setup guide and see if you can understand that to get it running.

    What it will do is make it available on any devices on your local (WiFi or wired) network. You will need to open a port on the Linux box’s firewall, but that step is easy and I can show you how to do that on Mint. Then you’ll be able to connect to it from your phone or any other devices (or right from a browser right on the server).

    If you have any questions feel free to ask. I have a few things running on a Mint server I have.